Word: maidishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With her, and settling down as her next-door neighbor, has come a dilettantish, old-maidish male (Cyril Ritchard). Against her, from the moment she arrives, is the formidable Miss Mapp, a manhunting, stop-at-nothing Nosey Parker (Catherine Willard). The struggle for primacy between the two women-Lucia's efforts to dethrone Miss Mapp as a tyrant, Miss Mapp's to unmask Lucia as a fraud-produces a series of mock-heroic crescendos and climaxes...
Last week Kansas Republicans admitted that they could no longer ignore a ridiculous situation. They had been given a hotfoot by small, bald, old-maidish Harry Hines Woodring, ex-governor (1931-33), ex-Secretary of War (1936-40), who last February lambasted Kansas prohibition as a "farce," called enforcement officers "shadows in a bootleggers' forest...
...maidish, a stickler for "gentlemanly" conduct, Jones insists on immaculate all-white court clothes, impeccable court manners. Of his boys he says: "I'm more interested in how they live than in how they play." When he refused to back a Mexican lad named Gonzales, who could beat Herbie Flam, Jones was called a snob. He countered: "That's not true. I dropped him because he wouldn't go to school...